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A drama about marriage in a small town, which takes place at the turn of the 19th into the 20th Century.

Clemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: it concerns a red portfolio with secret papers, which the minister stuck under a bed mattress and forgot about when he met someone on a rendezvous. And to make things more difficult, the horny minister can't remember which room he left it in. After several incidents in different hotel rooms, neither secretary has found a thing. There's not a trace of the portfolio; but Clemens is more interested in Annette, the young lady in one of the hotel beds, than in the portfolio. He forgets his mission and can think only of her. Boni, in the meantime, has found his way into a room, where Olivia is staying and sees a red, leather folder there. But the woman throws him out in short order.

Sylva Varescu is an operetta singer performing Kálmán's Die Czardasfürstin through Europe with great success. Before going to Vienna she meets handsome Prinz Weylerstein and they fall in love. Offered a contract for America, she doubts until she finds out that he is already engaged to a countess.

A classical art junk dealer and an almost bankrupt hairdresser who unexpectedly makes an inheritance go hunting behind thirteen chairs from which of a 100,000 DM contains which the rich aunt has hidden there.

A woman is put on trial for murdering a musician who ruined her marriage.

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A Czarist refugee, separated from her husband, gets a job as a nightclub singer in Vienna and has to decide later if she wants to rejoin him.

The daughter of a rich American entices a young German but he does the right thing and gives her up for a German girl. In a separate story thread, a sports instructor inherits a fortune after the death of his uncle.

Officials and royalty flock to a popular tavern on the Polish-Russian border,the lady owner scours the visitors for a prospect to marry off to her unwed daughter.

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